9th Apr 2008 16:31
Scottish & Southern Energy PLC09 April 2008 SCOTTISH AND SOUTHERN ENERGY PLC CONSENT FOR GORDONBUSH WIND FARM Scottish and Southern Energy plc ("SSE") has been granted planning permission bythe Scottish Government to develop a 87.5MW wind farm at Gordonbush in southeast Sutherland. The wind farm will have 35 turbines and construction work is expected to beginas soon as possible. This consent adds to the 2,000MW of renewable capacity that SSE announced it hadachieved at the end of March 2008, and is a step towards SSE's target of 4,000MWof renewable capacity by 2013. Ian Marchant, Chief Executive of SSE, said: "This is a good result for SSE whichreflects the hard work of our project development team. Gordonbush is the fifthSSE wind farm to receive consent in the last 18 months or so. "While the Gordonbush proposal has spent almost five years in the planningsystem, there are encouraging signs that the planning process is beginning tospeed up. Given the scale of the energy challenges facing the country, it isimportant these encouraging signs represent a sustained commitment to a betterplanning process." This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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